I've skimmed the forum, played enough games against it and with it, and will be getting reqs this weekend.
Leaning towards
voting no ban.
1) Sun is pretty ass. Maybe because I don't leave home w/o Kingambit but I feel like I have about a 75% win rate vs sun.
(GF should really nerf the cringe shit of boosting fire and water moves in sun and rain, and just keep the speed abilities and weakening their types in opposite weather.)
2) It's a dragon. You have to slot that into your team. Role compression is obviously huge and WW is fighting against some really good dragons out there for a spot on your team. It does a have a niche over most other dragons in the tier as being a special attacker- but it's a dragon, one less mon you have to switch in vs Val. But y'know who also has 125 spa?
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Sub/Taunt, NP, Draco, EP/DP is an insane set that's slept on. It can fire off multiple dracos without becoming set up bait.
It doesn't have the speed, but it might be better vs more teams than WW, depending on your composition. Basically, I'm saying spa dragons are something a meta can prep for and deal with, and have been doing since DragMag. If you don't have a switch in for draco meteor, or cant take advantage of it in any way and get back momentum, then that's on your team and you as a player.
3) WW usually has to tera. Mons that have to tera are either the best in the tier, such as Nite, Volc, Gargan, or a liability for your team. The best teams right now are rarely tera'ing a random mon at a random time. It's usually a dedicated user such as Gargan, with a backup dedicated user for niche situations. So if a mon is A+ material when it teras, but B when it doesn't, then you have to be careful just slapping that mon on your team. Meaning, if you're going to use WW, then you have to build around the fact that it most likely has to be your tera mon in 80% of battles. Insofar as much as ppl are using WW right now, as a nuke. I could see a sub, roar variant being able to be great without ever needing to tera, but that leaves me to my next point.
4) It's much too soon for this. Of course a mon is going to seem OP in the first week or two of being out, especially when it's dropped in the middle of a meta literally overnight. If the mon is broken, then fine, but we literally don't have enough time to truly figure that out. It's not something stupidly obvious with 150spa 120speed; its a fast Hydreigon. It outclasses Hydre on some level, sure, but ppl who posted about their precious Garg or Pex taking 80% from specs draco, are lucky Hydre didnt sub up, np, and do that to their entire team.
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WW might be broken, but it doesn't seem so at this moment to me. It was a pain in the ass for a few days, but something as simple as changing my Roaring Moon from attack booster energy to speed boosting turned the tides. That's how adapting works.
When I say WW might be broken, I don't mean in any capacity as I'm currently seeing.
However, it may be broken on rain. Thank god the rain players have an average IQ of a housecat, but other players will realize what I have. On rain, not sun, this thing will be a monster. The best spa mon rain has rn is golduck. The min these kids realize WW is right there, and that hydro does more in the rain than steam does in sun, it may need a suspect then, but not now.
This suspect was rushed and seems to be very knee jerk.
This entire meta will be invalid and a relic in a few weeks anyway.
WW will be dropped right back into Home meta to test, so this is kinda pointless.